IBT Staff Reporter

The United States is coming to be seen as a global threat, acting unilaterally with aggressive new market rules that critics say will hurt U.S. firms, foreign banks, and international markets in one swoop.

Europe will again be at the center of investors' focus this week as the U.S. earnings season passes the halfway mark and there is little on the economic calendar to give the market direction.

Europe will again be at the center of investors' focus this week as the U.S. earnings season passes the halfway mark and there is little on the economic calendar to give the market direction.

Euro zone finance ministers told Greece it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately held debt until it guaranteed to implement reforms to secure a second financing package from the euro zone and the IMF.

Artivision Technologies Ltd., a Singapore firm that specializes in online video advertising, said on Sunday its technology may be incorporated into a software kit being developed by the Intel Corp.

Artivision Technologies Ltd, a Singapore firm that specializes in online video advertising, said on Sunday its technology may be incorporated into a software kit being developed by Intel Corp.

In a bizarre incident, a gamer died in an Internet café in Taiwan and his lifeless body had remained there unnoticed for nearly nine hours.

Mitt Romney has won the Nevada caucuses in his second consecutive victory of the 2012 Republican presidential-nomination season. What does that mean for him, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum?

China has a stake in helping the Eurozone countries get through their debt crisis, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in comments published on Sunday, pointing to Europe's importance not only as an export market but also as a source of technology.

Japan's troubled Olympus Corp. said on Sunday it will hold an extraordinary shareholders meeting on April 20, when it is expected to seek approval of a new management team. The company is struggling to emerge from a $1.7 billion accounting scandal and is continuing operations under a hobbled board.

The assailant entered the house, targeted Lindsay Wood and even slashed her neck. But she kept her cool, opened the holy text and read the verses to the man, ignoring her injuries.

Justice Hedley's order bans the woman from having sex and also prevents anyone from trying to have sex with her.

Memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc.'s board of directors appointed company veteran Mark Durcan as CEO a day after longtime Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash.

Memory chipmaker Micron Technology's board appointed company veteran Mark Durcan as chief executive a day after longtime Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash.

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos faces the critical task of convincing international lenders and political-party leaders on Sunday to agree to the stringent terms of a 130 billion euro ($171 billion) rescue plan to stave off looming default.

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos faces a critical task of convincing international lenders and political party leaders on Sunday to agree to the stringent terms of a 130 billion euro ($171 billion) rescue plan to stave off looming default.

Euro zone finance ministers told Greece on Saturday it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately-held debt until it guaranteed it would implement reforms needed to secure a second financing package from the euro zone and the IMF.

The possibility of a sovereign default by Greece cannot be ruled out, Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers from the single currency zone, said in a German magazine on Saturday.

Euro zone finance ministers told Greece on Saturday it could not go ahead with an agreed deal to restructure privately-held debt until it guaranteed it would implement reforms needed to secure a second financing package from the euro zone and the IMF.

The latest footage released by the Observer, the British newspaper, depicts young, topless Jarawa tribal women singing and dancing before a man dressed as an Indian police officer.

Republican front-runner Mitt Romney surged on Friday toward an apparent easy win in Nevada, with a new poll showing him beating rival Newt Gingrich by a 2-to-1 margin on the eve of the state's presidential nominating contest.

Chronicle and Woman in Black are turning what was supposed to be a lackluster weekend at the box office into a battle for first place.

Extremist political conspiracies such as birthers and truthers may be a dominant theme of post-9/11 America, but in a new book by Arthur Goldwag, he argues that modern conservative groups may be a product of history repeating itself.

Two producers of Tom Cruise's upcoming thriller One Shot were slapped by a breach of contract suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday by a former producer on the project.

From SOPA to Ellen DeGeneres, protesting keeps getting more social.

Good news, Samcro fanatics; Sons of Anarchy has been renewed for two seasons, guaranteeing a fifth and sixth season for FX's hit motorcycle-gang drama.

Charlie Sheen has just lined up two more goddesses for his harem -- on the small screen, at least.

Tony Oller, who played Danny on the Disney Channel's As the Bell Rings, has been offered the young male lead in Universal's upcoming sci-fi thriller Vigilandia, TheWrap has learned.

ABC has picked up the Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's pilot The Smart One.